Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his daughter Marian. She summons her fiancé Nick Halstead, a private detective. He finds that six people had a motive for the murder; Rood's sister Mrs. Laura Leland; her son Rex; Rood's associates Mallison and Walling; Esteban, a servant and Dr. Giddings. Sheriff Renick and his deputy Red get the clues all mixed up, but Nick finally narrows the search down to one suspect...
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle ...
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense mur...
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating ...
Axel Foley returns to the land of sunshine and palm trees to investigate the near-fatal shooting of ...
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in o...
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, California. He is dating l...
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby...
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the ...
Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a reg...
Crystal believed she had the ideal existence: a passionate spouse and a classy life. But all that co...
Private eye Phillip Marlowe wants to get out of the detective racket and into crime writing. But whe...
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing b...
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his ...
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while...
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the...
The zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.